Friday, March 16, 2012
Mike Daisey's previously announced one-night-only performance of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, scheduled for Saturday, April 7 at The Chicago Theatre, has been …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMMike Daisey's previously announced one-night-only performance of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, scheduled for Saturday, April 7 at The Chicago Theatre, has been …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:47PMThe Marriott Theatre has announced casting for Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance, to run April 4 - June 10. Dominic Missimi will direct the production, which will have c…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:45AMTy Burrell will voice Mr. Peabody in DreamWorks Animation's Mr. Peabody and Sherman, according to a report in The Hollywood Reporter. Rob Minkoff will direct the project.
The film wi…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:26AMHugh Jackman will star in the thriller Prisoners, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Denis Villeneuve will direct the project, which has a screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski.
The film will f…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:16AMThe world premiere of David Adjmi's Marie Antoinette will be the opening production in the 2012-2013 season at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.). Rebecca Taichman will direct the pie…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:49AMRoyal Court Theatre has announced casting for Mike Bartlett's Love, Love, Love, to run April 27 - June 2. James Grieve will direct the production.
The play centers on a couple, baby …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:32AMRob Ashford will direct and choreograph a stage musical version of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, according to a report in Variety.com. As previously reported, Linda Woolverton, who…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:20AMThursday, March 15, 2012
An updated list of participants for the 10th Annual TV Land Awards has been announced. The prizes will be presented, as previously reported, in a ceremony to be hosted by Kelly Ripa and hel…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:27PMStage and screen star Sebastian Stan will join Carla Gugino, Sigourney Weaver and James Wolk in USA's six-hour drama series Political Animals, according to Deadline.com.
The show will …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:42PMPearl Theatre Company has announced its 2012-2013 season, which as previously announced, will be the company's first at its new permanent home in the venue on 42nd Street recently vacat…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:55PMNBC has released a promotional video featuring Bernadette Peters discussing her upcoming guest appearance on Smash. Peters will appear on the show on Monday, March 19, playing mother to Ivy…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:59AMThe 2012 Olivier Award nominations have been announced. The prizes will be presented in a ceremony to be held, as previously announced, on April 15 in a ceremony at the Royal Opera House an…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:17AMJesse Berger’s intimate and ingenious staging of Jean Genet’s “The Maids” for Red Bull Theater offers voyeuristic thrills but fails to horrify or touch.
SOURCE: Backstage at 08:00AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Marie Osmond will host a talk show for Hallmark Channel. The one-hour program, Marie!, is slated to begin airing in late 2012.
The show will feature celebrity and non-celebrity guests who …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:16PMThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced dates for the 85th annual Academy Awards.
Nominations for the Oscars will be announced on January 15, 2013. The Academy Awards…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:44PMVictory Gardens has announced casting for Jackie Sibblies Drury's We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as South-West Africa, From the Germa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:27PMAn initial lineup of performers who will appear at the new nightclub and restaurant 54 Below has been announced. As previously reported, Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will open the venue w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 12:35PMTony Award winners Laura Benanti and Julie White have been joined the cast for the NBC pilot Go On, according to a report on Deadline.com. Todd Holland is directing the project, which has a…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:57AMCourt Theatre has announced its 2012-2013 season.
Charles Newell, will direct four of the theater's productions, including James Joyce's The Dead, (November 8 - December 9), Richa…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:30AMSony Masterworks will release the two CD set, Doris Day - With a Song and a Smile, on April 3.
The new double-disc package will feature 31 tracks which the performer herself has selected.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMSony Masterworks will release the two CD set, Doris Day - With a Smile and a Song, on April 3.
The new double-disc package will feature 31 tracks which the performer herself has selected.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:56AMThe slate of short films that will be screened at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, to be held in various New York City venues, April 18-29, has been announced.
Among the 60 films that will b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AMTuesday, March 13, 2012
Complete casting has been announced for the New York City Center Encores! production of Pipe Dream, to run March 28-April 1. Marc Bruni will direct the presentation, which will have music …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:59PMThe seven programs that will be honored at the Fifth Annual Television Academy Honors have been announced, according to a report on Deadline.com. The honors will be bestowed in a ceremony t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:47PMGreg Reiner has been named executive director of Classic Stage Company (CSC), effective March 19. He succeeds Jessica R. Jenen, who departed CSC last fall.
Reiner previously served as ex…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:33PMNick Jonas will reprise his role as fictional sitcom star Lyle West on the season finale of Smash, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The episode is slated to air on May 14.
Jonas is cur…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:23AMMonday, March 12, 2012
The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre (CST) has announced its schedule for the 2012-2013 season.
The theater will present both Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (February 5 - March 24), directed b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:51PMPerformance artist/playwright Tom Murrin has died of cancer, according to a report in The Village Voice.
Murrin is perhaps best known as "The Alien Comic," a stage persona he ad…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:36PMBailiwick Chicago and The New Colony have announced casting for Rise of the Numberless, to run April 6 - May 26 at Collaboraction Studio 300 in the Flat Iron Arts Building. Andrew Hobgood w…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:49PMMichael McKean, David L. Lander, Penny Marshall, and Cindy Williams, will accept the 10th Annual TV Land Favorite Award for the sitcomLaverne & Shirley, according to a report on TVGui…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 02:50PM 
